Margaret Sanger Quotes

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• As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents…
• We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with…
• We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been…
• Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor…
• More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.
• The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,
• I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
• Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
• Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
• Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking…
• Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the…
• Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.
• By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness…
• While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands…
• On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
• The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent…
• In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the…
• There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take…
• Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such…
• Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child...

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